Lithium-ion battery’s life cycle : safety risks and risk management at workplaces

This summary is the final report of the research project “Lithium-ion battery’s life cycle: safety risks and risk management at workplaces”, funded by Finnish Work Environment Fund, the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, OSALAN and Mitsubishi Logisnext Europe. The project has been part of SAF€RA program. The research was coordinated by Finnish Institute of Occupational Health (Finland) and the research partner was GAIKER (Spain). The report summarizes the occupational safety of the LIB value chain and presents good practices and aspects that need to be taken into account in the management of the safety risks related to LIBs, together with assessment of gaseous emissions and Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) which was used for evaluating the environmental impacts throughout the value chain of the LIB selected for the case study.